
Published online:
24 August 2015
Published in print:
29 April 2010
Online ISBN:
9781452946139
Print ISBN:
9780816653140
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Disorder and Desire: The Queer Landscapes of Interwar London Disorder and Desire: The Queer Landscapes of Interwar London
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Social Reconstruction and the Design for Community Living Social Reconstruction and the Design for Community Living
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Of Spivs and of Architects Of Spivs and of Architects
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From Criminal to Citizen: Redesigning the Metropolitan Homosexual From Criminal to Citizen: Redesigning the Metropolitan Homosexual
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“Environmental Factors” and the Revenge of the Commodity “Environmental Factors” and the Revenge of the Commodity
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The Way to Go Round The Way to Go Round
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Chapter
Introduction Social Modernism and Male Homosexuality in Postwar London
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1–38
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Published:April 2010
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Hornsey, Richard, 'Social Modernism and Male Homosexuality in Postwar London', The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London (Minneapolis, MN , 2010; online edn, Minnesota Scholarship Online, 24 Aug. 2015), https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816653140.003.0001, accessed 4 May 2025.
Abstract
This introductory chapter provides a background to Britain’s efforts in reorganizing everyday space and time within postwar London, focusing on the dominant projections of social order, and the various ways in which male same-sex desire was demonized, defended, and negotiated in relief. It talks about the various forms of queer subjectivity and alternative modes of resistance that emerged during the early postwar decades, and describes cultural arguments about the dynamics of the metropolitan queer men. The chapter also gives account of the journalist Peter Wildeblood, one of the well-known queer men that publicly defended homosexuality.
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